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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1963
Page
2
Great Plains Wheat Inc organizes to develop markets for hard red wheat. A standards committee forms after years of foreign buyer criticism of U S wheat imports. President Howard Hardy supports proposed standards to improve quality and bargaining power amid grain trade opposition.
A humorous meditation on purple grass, noting that purple grass is not the purple cow’s diet, and no one has seen a purple cow. Canadian scientists reportedly engineered grass that grows to two inches and stops, but it comes in purple. Treating springtime lawn care, the author muses on color, tradition, and the season’s mowing fatigue.
Hal Boyle imagines a national holiday for management as a counterpoint to Labor Day. He jokes about pampered bosses, offers satirical tips to celebrate the "honor" of management, and notes the largest foreign industrials including Royal Dutch Shell Unilever National Coal Board and Fiat.
Drew Pearson profiles Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria amid a tour of his seaside palace and servants quarters near Varna. He traces Bulgaria’s de Stalinization, Khrushchev alignment, and the 1962 Yugoslav rapprochement, noting internal party rifts and Zhivkov’s rise to leadership. The piece previews further discussion on peace with Red China, the United States, and Russia.
The writer describes a busy county fair experience with kids exhibits, food, balloons, drinking fountains, and meddlesome toddlers. They contrast it with memories of earlier fairs, noting reduced glamour and energy despite continued fun and expense. A note about 16 year old Jimmy Washburn’s surprise visit from Raleigh to Garden City through a chain of travels is included. A Siamese kitten is found at Claude Robinson's residence and may belong to a neighbor.
The notice outlines carrier and mail subscription rates in Garden City and surrounding counties Finney Kane Seorg Wren arsues Thanlston Kearny Grant Haskel Gray, with yearly and student pricing. It notes local and regional service areas, plus second class postage and AP copyright statements.
OLATHE Kan AP Lloyd Lee Harsh an 18 year old convicted killer of a pretty schoolmate will be returned to Olathe Tuesday for a preliminary hearing of burglary and grand larceny charges Harsh was sentenced to not more than 20 years imprisonment June 28 for the fatal shooting of Donna Dee Busby 17 of Olathe Harsh and Miss Busbys fiancé Thomas Thorp 20 of Endicott Neb are charged in connection with a series of burglaries in which three other 1963 Olathe high school graduates were implicated Thorp was wounded by a blast from Harshs shotgun in the March 2nd shooting when Miss Busby was killed
Herb Pollard aged 65 drowned after his boat capsized while fishing with two companions on a pond at Ray Kaufman farm southwest of Princeton Missouri. The incident occurred Wednesday according to AP.
An eight year old boy fell from a speeding express train near Sarajevo in Belgrade Yugoslavia on Wednesday. He escaped with bruises after opening the wrong door while searching for the wash room. Passengers alerted the crew who backed up the train and found him about a half hour later.
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